Our 7th annual Sexual Freedom Summit is going to be a real treat! Come together with hundreds of your friends and colleagues to share information, experiences, and strategies to use in the fight for human rights and sexual freedom! Early bird registration…
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5 Ways to Advocate for Human Rights
As sexual freedom activists, there is never a question of the amount of work to be done. Two weeks ago we learned of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s raid on Rentboy.com (which some are calling the “Stonewall of Sex…
Tagged with: family • Human Rights • sexual freedomA letter from Woodhull Board’s Co-Chair, Carmen Vázquez
Hate. Hate. Hate. Everywhere. Hate against gays. Hate against women. Hate against Muslims. Hate against Hillary. Hate against Obama. Hate against Immigrants. Hate. Hate of White people for Black people. Hate of Jews for Palestinians. Hate of Palestinians for Jews.…
Abortion Drones Use Innovation for Justice
The Supreme Court has ruled in favor of human rights. The decisions to uphold the Affordable Care Act as well as the ruling in favor of marriage equality are both steps in the direction of justice. In the midst of these…
Tagged with: Health Care • Human Rights • reproductive justice • reproductive rights • sexual freedomAbortion is a Human Right
The “Global Gag Rule” turns back the clock on human rights world-wide. Abortion as a human right has been affirmed by the United Nations since 2005. And, in direct violation of this fundamental human right, President Donald Trump reinstated and…
Tagged with: Activism • censorship • gender • Health Care • HIV/AIDS • Human Rights • pornography • reproductive rights • sexual freedomAsexuality Awareness and The Right to Family
Last week was Asexuality Awareness Week, an international campaign to educate communities about asexual, aromantic, demisexual, grey-asexual experiences. In honor of the shared stories about asexuality that have been circulating through cyberspace, I want to talk about what the asexual…
Tagged with: family • Human Rights • sexual freedom • sexualityBREAKING: Single day & weekend registration now available for the Summit!
HAVE YOU REGISTERED YET? The Summit is coming! The Summit is coming! And it’s right around the corner! So many of you have emailed and messaged us to explain that you can’t attend for the full four days and you’d…
BREAKING: We’ve Got the Quick and Dirty Facts About #SFS16, August 4-7, 2016!
The Woodhull Sexual Freedom Alliance is thrilled to announce that we’ll be returning to the Alexandria Hilton Mark Center for the 7th annual Sexual Freedom Summit (#SFS16) from August 4-7, 2016. Mark your calendars! Just to give you a little…
Tagged with: #SFS16 • Human Rights • sexual freedomCall for Proposals for 2016 Sexual Freedom Summit
For seven years, Woodhull’s Sexual Freedom Summit has been an established and anticipated forum in the national discussions of sexual freedom as a fundamental human right. This year’s Summit will be held August 4th to August 7th, 2016. We will be envisioning the…
Call for Workshop Proposals: Sexual Freedom Summit 2017
Join the conversation at Woodhull’s Sexual Freedom Summit in 2017! #SFS17 is August 3th to 6th, 2017 The U. S. election season is over and one thing we know for sure is that we have a great deal of difficult…
Tagged with: Activism • civil rights • community • Feminism • gender • Human Rights • sexual freedom • sexual politics • sexuality • US Human Rights NetworkCivil Liberties Groups Condemn Government Attacks on Escort Service Providers – Cite First Amendment and Human Rights Concerns
We are categorically opposed to human trafficking. We strenuously oppose any measure that makes people more vulnerable to human trafficking. We also stand in opposition to measures that crush constitutionally protected civil liberties under the guise of combatting human trafficking.…
Communities of Privilege, Ethics Of Pleasure, Economies of Pain
The recent hospitalizations and arrests at Wesleyan University, initiated by the indulgence in a club drug called Molly, is prompting a lot of self-examination on the campus, and I can imagine that much of that self-examination is at risk of…
Tagged with: drugs • Feminism • higher education • sex wars • sex work • stigma • WesleyanConsent: “Unconscious people don’t want tea.”
The UK explained sexual consent in the most British way possible. The video is being used by Thames Valley Police courtesy of RockStarDinosaurPiratePrincess.com and Blue Seat Studios. Copyright © 2015 RockStarDinosaurPiratePrincess and Blue Seat Studios. Images are Copyright ©2015 Blue Seat…
Countdown to SFS15: Family Matters Project
In just two short weeks on August 12th, sexual freedom fighters will gather in Alexandria, VA to educate, advocate, and strategize ways to make a sexually free future a reality. Pioneers of pleasure and freedom, like Nina Hartley and Buck Angel,…
Tagged with: family • Law • sexual freedom • sexual politics • sexual rightsCountdown to SFS15: Sexuality and Aging
We are less than a month away from Woodhull’s 2015 Sexual Freedom Summit! We’re thrilled that it’s almost time to share a weekend full of provocative thinking, maybe a little provocative dancing, and some collaborative activism in the fight towards…
Tagged with: aging • Health Care • sex • sexual freedom • sexuality • SFSCountdown to SFS15: Sexuality and Spirituality
It’s almost here! We are less than one week away from the Woodhull’s 2015 Sexual Freedom Summit and we’re continuing our Summit Countdown to August 13th! We’re bringing you the Countdown to SFS15 series to make sure you know about…
Tagged with: family • Human Rights • Politics • religion • sexual freedom • spiritualityCountdown to SFS15: Summit Essentials
It’s Summit week and soon we’ll all be together learning, sharing, strategizing and doing lots of important work (and play!). You may have some questions about preparing for the Summit, so we thought we’d try to answer some commonly asked…
Defend the Right to Love
On this Valentine’s Day, commit to defending and respecting the human right to love. The expression of love looks different across cultures and among individuals. But we can all agree that it’s hard to cultivate love when we are denied…
Dehumanization In A Nutshell: “We Work With The Garbage Of New York”
-Sikkim Assing, Retired corrections officer, on why she and others carry concealed weapons, and feel entitled to use them. Those words – “We work with the garbage of New York” – are attributed to retired corrections officer Sikkim Assing in…
Tagged with: dehumanization • Gilbert Drogheo • Human Rights • Joscelyn Evering • new york city • Racism • Sikkim Assing • William GroomesExpanding the Conversation about Sex Ed Reform
When we talk about sex education reform, the discussion is often a two-sided debate between teaching adolescents about sex or teaching them to wait until marriage. As of January 2015, only 19 states have a policy that requires their sex…
Tagged with: family • Human Rights • sex education • sexual politics • sexuality • youthHartford Zoning Board to Family: Enter Servitude Or Move Out
How to Respond to Questions About Transgender Bathroom Access
Liberals: How Strong Is Your Support for Transgender Equality? by Nathaniel Frank (this article first appeared on Slate.com and is reposted here with the author’s permission) In the wake of draconian laws passed in North Carolina and Mississippi restricting which…
Tagged with: Transgender RightsHuman Rights Cup: Corporations=1, Human Beings=0
In a stunning (but not unexpected) decision, the anti-human rights, anti-sexual freedom Supreme Court of the United States affirmed sexual freedom for corporations and denied it to human beings. Not good. Very, very bad. The decision is not out of…
Injustice In Iowa: Pleasure, Danger, and Dementia
You know that I’m working on a book about sexuality, aging, illness, and dying, and that it’s a mother-daughter memoir, and so you know that issues about parents’ sexuality and the care that hospitals and nursing homes afford them are…
Tagged with: aging • consent • dementia • Health Care • Henry Rayhons • Law • new york times • sexIs the LGBTQ Movement All Sunshine and Rainbows?
In the two weeks since the Supreme Court ruled in favor of marriage equality, the world has witnessed a surge of rainbows. From our Facebook friends’ profile pictures to corporate advertising, the symbol of LGBTQ pride is everywhere. Some have…
Tagged with: civil rights • LGBTQ • media • Politics • sexual freedom • sexual politics • sexuality